It's fascinating how roughly 50/50 becomes 70/30, 65/35, etc, when you look at particular groups. Multiple performance indices all working together in an overall optimization problem. A nonlinear optimization problem with modeling uncertainties and imperfect sensing data. This sounds like a job for … someone from ScienceLand!

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I always love how completely meaningless “I was given a mandate” really is.

When Bush stared his second term he won the popular vote by a pitiful 2.4% over his opponent. In 2012 Obama won the popular vote by 2.8%. Thus Obama has 17% more mandate then Bush. Bush, who went totally nuts claiming his mandate.
Obama probably should push his “I have a mandate” thing on the fact that he got 61% more electoral college votes. You know, because electoral votes aren’t stupid.